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Birds found in Australia

Birds found in Australia

Australian birds ... not just native birds, but introduced species as well. They too make up the ecology we live in today. If anything birds are even more challenging to photograph than other animals - they move more quickly, change direction more rapidly. It takes patience, being ready at just the right time. Koole Imaging has a selection of pictures of birds found in Australia on this page. It's a privilege to share his pics here.

Koole Imaging is based in Queensland, in the harbour city of Gladstone. He says, among other things

'...Australia is an amazing diverse country too beautiful not to share with the world! ... '

ThisisAustralia.com.au has permission to share them on our pages too. We do so with appreciation.

It's a great shot! I don't know what type of birds these are. Can someone let us know?

King parrot, pictured at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, NSW, Australia. King parrots are a large, brilliantly coloured birds that live in much of eastern Australia - but not in Tasmania - in wet and coastal environments. They tend to like dense bushland. They feed on seeds, fruit, berries, nuts, nectar, blossoms, leaf buds, and insects and their larvae.

Rainbow Lorikeets live in coastal regions across northern and eastern Australia. The local population in Perth, Western Australia, is a result of birds being released from aviaries. The Rainbow Lorikeet lives in places where there are trees, including rainforest and woodlands, as well as in towns where there are trees.

Pale headed rosella, found in eastern and north eastern Australia. They are noisy and conspicuous birds, living in lightly timbered woodlands with a grassy understorey, tree-lined watercourses and agricultural lands..

Pink and grey galah, found all over Australia, except Tasmania. They are gregarious birds, living in flocks of 30 to as much as one thousand birds. They are found all through the Australian bush and the outback. They make their nests in hollow trees or logs.

Colourful Cassowary, near Naracoorte, South Australia. The Southern Cassowary is the third tallest and second heaviest living bird, smaller only than the ostrich and emu. They are part of the ratite group of birds, which includes the ostrich and the emu. They are very shy birds, but when they are provoked they have been known to attack both humans and animals. They are native to northern Australia, tropical forests in New Guinea, and surrounding islands.

A friendly kookaburra, at Lorne, Victoria, Australia. Friendly - near enough to touch! This pic was not taken with a DSLR with a long lens, but with a Nokia Lumia 920 mobile phone. So you have get close up to get a good pic. May 2013.

Emus are found in every state of Australia, including South Australia. They are part of the ratite group of large flightless birds, which includes the ostrich and the cassowary.

Emus can move very quickly. I once had an old man emu running alongside the car on the Eyre Highway a few miles east of Norseman in Western Australia. He was a big powerful bird and he matched the car's speed of a bit more than 60 kilometres and hour for a short distance, before he decided that the scrub was a better option! It was beautiful to see him run, with his feathers flowing in the wind and his body seeming to flow over the ground.